The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?
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- Martin Nordin & Dan-Olof Rooth, 2007. "The Income Gap Between Natives and Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden: Is Skill the Explanation?," CReAM Discussion Paper Series 0706, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London.
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productive skills; discrimination; incomes; wages;JEL classification:
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2007-05-12 (All new papers)
- NEP-EEC-2007-05-12 (European Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2007-05-12 (Economics of Human Migration)
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